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'Little ' Edie Beale

Posted by Jemma Tibbals on 13/11/2008
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Designers like Philip Lim, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs frequently reference the rather tragic New York socialite, Edie Bouvier Beale. This stylish beauty partied in rarified Upper East side circles throughout the 1930s and her cousin was Jackie O. Her fabulous fashion eccentricity revs up in the latter part of her life, broke and living with her mother, ‘Big" Edie in a crumbling mansion in East Hampton, known as Grey Gardens. Mother and daughter became unlikely stars of a documentary in 1971, when they were discovered cut off from the outside world still wearing threadbare couture, despite living in a house infested with raccoons and mountains of junk. Not even selling off Tiffany pieces had saved them from a life of abject poverty. Little Edie spent her days creating fashion fantasies, glamming-up in bizarre and quirky ensembles from her glory years. Her jumpers as skirts, tops as capes, swimming costumes as eveningwear and turbans with everything will be revealed in a new film starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lang.

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